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Max Planck Institute of Biophysics @mpibp.bsky.social · 9d

🎉 Congratulations to our postdoc @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social for receiving the 2026 Theory & Computation Postdoctoral Research Award from the Biophysical Society! 🎉 Sergio will present his work at the Theory & Computation subgroup Symposium during the 2026 Biophysical Society meeting.

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Typas Lab @typaslab.bsky.social · Jul 30

Ready to lead pioneering research that bridges systems-level investigations of biological systems to molecular mechanism? The EMBL Molecular Systems Biology Unit in Heidelberg is hiring a Group Leader!

Group Leader – Molecular Systems Biology Unit

Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Molecular Systems Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group, addressing original biological ...

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Miro Astore @miroastore.bsky.social · Jul 23

That's a wrap! The results of the first #cryoEM heterogeneity challenge are up on biorxiv!
biorxiv.org/content/10.110

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Melanie McDowell @melaniemcdowell.bsky.social · Jul 12

Proud to share our first lab pre-print: “SND3 is the membrane insertase within a fungal multipass translocon” where @tzujingyang.bsky.social solved the structure of a ribosome-associated SND3-translocon complex involved in ER membrane protein insertion ➡️ doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Sergio Cruz-León @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social · Apr 14

Thanks 😀🧬

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Sergio Cruz-León @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social · Apr 13

🧬😄! Thanks!

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Sergio Cruz-León @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social · Apr 13

😄 thank you!

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Sergio Cruz-León @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social · Apr 13

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Sergio Cruz-León @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social · Apr 13

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Sergio Cruz-León @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social · Apr 11

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Sergio Cruz-León @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social · Apr 11

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Sergio Cruz-León @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social · Apr 11

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Jan Philipp Kreysing @jpkreysing.bsky.social · Apr 11

New preprint on 3D heterochromatin architecture in human cells! Great collab with @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social & @johannesbetz.bsky.social from @hummerlab.bsky.social, @marinalusic.bsky.social & the Turoňová lab. Many thanks to my supervisor @becklab.bsky.social. bioRxiv: tinyurl.com/3a74uanv 🧵👇

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Sergio Cruz-León @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social · Apr 11

Excited to share our preprint on the molecular architecture of heterochromatin in human cells 🧬🔬w/ @jpkreysing.bsky.social, @johannesbetz.bsky.social,
@marinalusic.bsky.social, Turoňová lab, @hummerlab.bsky.social @becklab.bsky.social @mpibp.bsky.social

🔗 Preprint here tinyurl.com/3a74uanv

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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · Mar 25

Our paper on prediction of phase-separation propensities of disordered proteins from sequence is now published:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The paper has been substantially updated compared to the preprint including new experimental data and using the neural network to finetune CALVADOS. 1/n

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Rommie Amaro @rommieamaro.bsky.social · Mar 28

✨✨ It's #glycotime for #HIV Env ✨✨

N-linked glycans modulate flexibility & MPER epitope exposure #glycotime

Huge effort by @shehata92.bsky.social @lcasalino88.bsky.social with cryoET of Env in VLPs by @thevillalab.bsky.social & team 💪

Would love feedback!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Gräter lab @graeterlab.bsky.social · Apr 4

Job alert: Join us in Mainz as

Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2) in Molecular Design

...and make your own research dreams happen on de novo design, generative models, proteins, materials ...
tinyurl.com/r2xjxnuk

@mpip-mainz.mpg.de

Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2) in Molecular Design

We are looking for exceptional early-career scientists conducting computational research with a proven record of accomplishment. The primary focus of this call is on candidates proposing research on b...

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Sven Klumpe @svenklumpe.bsky.social · Apr 9

Thrilled to share these experiments on shaping focused ion beams to explore different ways of milling. Here, we explore using different beam geometries to generate cellular thin sections/lamellae. The video shows elongating the beam on a charging spot burn www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Jan Philipp Kreysing @jpkreysing.bsky.social · Apr 9

Excited to share our latest work on nuclear pore complex scaffold integrity and its perturbation. Now out in Nature Cell Biology: rdcu.be/eg4i9
Great work by Reiya Taniguchi who just opened his own research group back in Japan! 🥳

Nuclear pores safeguard the integrity of the nuclear envelope

Nature Cell Biology - Taniguchi et al. structurally analyse nuclear pore complex architecture in situ during differentiation, which is associated with mechanical constraints on the nuclear...

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Sven Klumpe @svenklumpe.bsky.social · Mar 5

Happy to share our manuscript on the in situ visualization of the copia retrotransposon in its final form today published in @cellcellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex.... What’s new?

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Giovanni Bussi @bussigio.bsky.social · Feb 20

Interested in #RNA modelling across multiple scales? Join us for the @cecamevents.bsky.social meeting at SISSA, Trieste, May 19-22! www.cecam.org/workshop-det... We still have slots for contributed talks. Deadline March 23. Co-organized with @magistratolab.bsky.social and @marcodevivo.bsky.social

CECAM - RNA modelling across scales

www.cecam.org

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CompBioPhys @compbiophys.bsky.social · Feb 18

🤩 Highly optimized software running on a SOA #HPC cluster provides sufficient #computing power to #simulate #biomolecular systems at the mesoscale of viruses and organelles, and potentially small cells in the near future... Want to know more? Check out our paper 📑 in #JCC 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/jcc....

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Jim Hurley @jimhurley.bsky.social · Feb 6

Excited to see work led by @autophazeke.bsky.social, @minghaochen.bsky.social, Thanh Nguyen, and Ainara Claveras out in @science.org today, the culmination of a 15-year project to understand structurally how the synthesis of the critical lipid of autophagy, PI3P, is regulated. tinyurl.com/ywvjh8u4

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Max Planck Institute of Biophysics @mpibp.bsky.social · Jan 31

Exciting green news! 🦠 Do you know how certain microorganisms make a living by transforming CO2 into useful molecules? Check out our new work on the molecular choreography behind acetyl-CoA synthesis in the CODH/ACS protein complex. 👩‍🔬 🔗 www.biophys.mpg.de/2844976/micr...

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Bianca Introini @bianca-introini.bsky.social · Jan 27

I am very happy to share our latest work on the detailed cryo-EM structure of the NDH-PSI supercomplex of spinach. Thanks to Werner Kühlbrandt, Alex Hahn and @mpibp.bsky.social ! 🍃❄️🔬
You can find the paper in open access in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cryo-EM structure of the NDH–PSI–LHCI supercomplex from Spinacia oleracea - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Here, the authors report the structure of the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate dehydrogenase–photosystem I–light-harvesting complex I supercomplex, providing insights into subunit interacti...

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